The 2020 David Bates Medal is awarded to
Agustín Sánchez-Lavega for his exceptional contributions to solar system exploration and planetary atmospheric dynamics, as well as promoting young researchers, advancing interactions with amateur astronomers, and publicising planetary science.

The 2020 John Dalton Medal is awarded to
Amilcare Porporato for seminal contributions to the field of ecohydrology and for developing new theories for the analysis of soil-plant-atmosphere systems across scales.

The 2020 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to
Andreas Hartmann for outstanding contributions to understanding karst systems, their evolution, and particular hydrological processes, and pushing the community to large scales with new models and a smart use of tracers.

The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Anna E. Hogg for outstanding research in the field of satellite remote sensing of the cryosphere and her contributions to science communications.

The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Anna Joy Drury for her fundamental contributions to research on Miocene stable isotope stratigraphy, palaeoceanography and climate evolution.

The 2020 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to
Beatriz Sánchez-Cano for her outstanding research on the complex variability of Mars’ ionosphere through multi-instrument and multi-mission data processing, analysis and interpretation, as well as numerical modelling.

The 2020 Alexander von Humboldt Medal is awarded to
Bojie Fu for outstanding research in China and Africa on the ecological effects of land use change balancing agricultural and environmental interests in such a way that realisation in practice was feasible.

The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Caitlin E. Hicks Pries for her exceptional contributions to biogeosciences in general and in particular, the terrestrial carbon cycle and the interplay of soil and plant processes with climate.

The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Christoph von Hagke for his wide-ranging contributions to the kinematics and dynamics of plate boundaries, their interactions with foreland basins, and with magma transport.

The 2020 Plinius Medal is awarded to
Claire J. Horwell for her outstanding interdisciplinary research on the respiratory health implications of volcanic aerosols, including ash, minerals and liquid droplets.

The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Ekaterina Didenkulova for her exceptional contribution in developing the theory of nonlinear waves in geophysics, and in particular for the development of extreme waves, known as rogue waves.

The 2020 Angela Croome Award is awarded to
Elizabeth Gibney for her objective, clear and constructive communication of new Earth, planetary and space science discoveries especially relevant to Europe and European citizens.

The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Estanislao Pujades for his outstanding research on Underground Pumped Storage Hydropower using abandoned mines, and its interaction with groundwater.

The 2020 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to
François Massonnet for his significant contribution to polar climate prediction, projection and reanalyses, including original integration of model and data evidence.

The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Frédéric Le Moigne for outstanding research in ocean biogeochemistry, particularly the vertical exchanges of organic carbon between the surface and the ocean’s interior: the biological carbon pump.

The 2020 Philippe Duchaufour Medal is awarded to
Georg Guggenberger for outstanding research in the field of soil science, with special emphasis on conceptual work on the soil organic carbon evolution and interaction of organic matter with mineral structures.

The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Georgina Bennett for careful field measurements and aligned earth observation; Georgina’s innovative approaches have unlocked new understanding of key controls on landslide mechanics and resultant landscape evolution.

The 2020 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to
Holly J. Stein in recognition of her pioneering development of the rhenium-osmium geochronometer and remarkable array of applications of Re-Os geochemistry.

The 2020 Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership is awarded to
Ingeborg Levin for fundamental contributions to our present knowledge and understanding of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, including the global carbon cycle.

The 2020 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to
John J. Clague for his remarkable scientific contributions in fundamental and applied research on earthquakes, tsunamis, outburst floods and landslides, directed towards risk reduction for the benefit of societies.

The 2020 Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal is awarded to
Julienne C. Stroeve for her fundamental contributions to improved satellite observations of sea ice, better understanding of causes of sea ice variability and change, and her compelling communication to the wider public.

The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Karina Wilgan for the development of new methods for the integration of GNSS delays, meteorological observations and numerical weather prediction models for applications in InSAR and GNSS.

The 2020 Hans Oeschger Medal is awarded to
Kim M. Cobb for pioneering acquisition and interpretation of high-resolution observations from corals and cave deposits in Earth’s equatorial regions and their implications for climate change.

The 2020 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to
Mathilde Cannat for her invaluable contributions to the understanding of the tectonic and magmatic evolution of mid-ocean ridges and the formation of oceanic crust.

The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Meng Gao for original contributions to the understanding of haze pollution formation in highly polluted regions and its interactions with climate.

The 2020 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal is awarded to
Michael J. Benton in recognition of his outstanding contributions to vertebrate palaeontology, to palaeobiology and to macroevolution across times of extreme environmental change.

The 2020 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal is awarded to
Michael J. Prather for groundbreaking developments in chemistry-transport modelling, establishing a theoretical framework to elucidate the role of reactive species in climate forcing, and improving environmental policy.

The 2020 Jean Dominique Cassini Medal & Honorary Membership is awarded to
Pascale Ehrenfreund for her leadership in international space exploration and breadth of science leading her to co-found the field of astrobiology.

The 2020 Ian McHarg Medal is awarded to
Paul Wessel for outstanding contributions to developing open-source software, including Generic Mapping Tools (GMT), for the Earth and space sciences that have enabled thousands of research projects and papers.

The 2020 Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal is awarded to
Pierre Friedlingstein for exceptional contributions to biogeosciences in leading the quantification of the carbon-climate feedbacks in a changing world.

The 2020 Hannes Alfvén Medal is awarded to
Qiugang Zong for his outstanding contributions to the identification of the particle acceleration mechanisms in the magnetosphere and to the development of space plasma physics instrumentation.

The 2020 Katia and Maurice Krafft Award is awarded to
Rhian H. Meara for her significant contributions to the dissemination of geography and Earth and environmental science topics to people with disabilities.

The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Sebastian Dötterl for his contributions to the understanding of biogeochemical processes along geoclimatic gradients and the role of soil development and soil disturbance as controls on carbon dynamics.

The 2020 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal is awarded to
Thomas J. Coulthard for establishing landscape evolution modelling as a robust approach to geomorphological investigation, changing how geomorphology is studied and communicated, and promoting open research.

The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Tobias Keller for outstanding scientific contributions related to understanding magma dynamics and igneous systems in the mantle and lithosphere, including the roles of volatiles and reactive flow.

The 2020 Milutin Milankovic Medal is awarded to
Valérie Masson-Delmotte for outstanding contributions to research on long-term climate change, namely palaeotemperature records from ice cores, and for her leadership in international efforts to translate science to society.

The 2020 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to
Valerio Lucarini for his outstanding contributions to the fields of extreme value theory and climate science in general, with particular applications to climate modelling and prediction.

The 2020 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to
Weian Chao in recognition of his major contributions to using existing seismic networks to improve landslide monitoring, allowing authorities to act quickly to mitigate landslide damage.

The 2020 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to
Wenlu Zhu for her exceptional contributions to understanding coupling between fluids and rock deformation and in recognition of her role in promoting women in science and rock physics globally.

The 2020 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to
Willi Freeden for his pioneering work in combining a comprehensive mathematical theory with fundamental geodetic problems and advanced applications in Earth system sciences and global change studies.

About EGU

EGU, the European Geosciences Union, is Europe’s premier geosciences union, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences for the benefit of humanity, worldwide. It was established in September 2002 as a merger of the European Geophysical Society (EGS) and the European Union of Geosciences (EUG), and has headquarters in Munich, Germany.